2016 Election

The structural failures under it all

This is an excellent summary of where we are and the realistic range of actions we can expect. While I’m not optimistic about the survival of the US in anything like its present form, there is a chance that a complete change of Congress and the executive this year…

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Screwed!

We are so screwed.

We’ve been screwed to the floor, walls, and ceiling. There hasn’t been a single…

An incredible revelation of someone so completely lost that even the concept of escape is permanently erased. From the start of this disastrous episode it was obvious that she has never expected such a bizarre string of events. This analysis shows the outlines of what is left. Only the frame and pieces of herself with her son in hopeful motion to…

An interesting view. It’s rare to see someone actually make the effort to articulate some sort of strategy for this disaster. A year of flailing and thrashing and amazing success at destroying both the nation’s international reputation and power is a hard act to follow. The stunning vote for a secret budget unseen by the people who voted in the senate will probably stand as the Reichstag fire of US history.

This is an interesting analysis. It seems to me this is, at best, the equivalent of damning with faint praise. Extreme religionists are saved from hypocrisy by stupidity. They gave up any pretense of morality to further their authoritarian dogma putting them in exactly the same corner with every other tin foil hat wearing crackpot. They obviously…

The moral conundrum

Yes, I keep coming back to the need to ignore the willfully ignorant. But there’s a moral conundrum there. That becomes an act of removing them from consideration which is what they do, are doing, to whole groups of people arbitrarily. When does that cross the moral line from “justified” to…

It’s obvious where this is going as you’ve nicely sketched the possibilities. Pardoning a low grade, vicious criminal such as Arpaio made no sense except as a signal that the Trump gang is going for the big time. They know that Mueller is closing in and their only option is to gut the constitution and destroy the rule of law.

Thank you. Sorry it’s stuff you’d rather not see. It’s just really getting me worried as people are accepting every outrage as it’s just a little worse than the one the day before. Like the frog in the pot of water, it’s just a little warmer than before. . . just a little warmer. We know the end and we’re the frog.